Archives for October 2017

The first volume, Angel’s Truth, came out in August, and the second book, Angel’s Deceit was released in late September, so the last few months have been particularly frenetic because this whole project – half-joking called Project Insanity – began back in January 2017 when I set myself the goal of revising, proofing, formatting, and producing the whole trilogy while doing the bulk of the work myself.

My debut works have far exceeded my expectations, and been far more successful than I could have hoped. I’ve received great reviews, wonderful feedback, and lots of kind words and support from far too many people to name. Copies of the books have been sold far beyond my little corner of the world, with people as far away as Brazil, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, and Japan snaffling copies, while also finding unexpected popularity in Germany (danke schon, Deutschland!).

Thank you, everyone – there’ll be more details to follow, but know that despite my intermittent presence here I’m grateful to you all. Normal service (such as it is!) should resume once the final Project Insanity wrap-up/lessons learned post is up, but for now here’s some exciting news:

My first author interview will be coming later this month (details TBC) with another possibly happening soon after.

If you haven’t read any of the trilogy yet, then for tomorrow only, October 17th, kindle versions of all three books will be available from Amazon for free: Angelwar Trilogy

AKA: The I-Told-You So Post / Eyes on the Prize

This little project to bring 3 books to publication from final(ish) drafts to finished book in 8 months or so is coming to an end, so let’s start with a quick recap of the initial plan:

The Story So Far…

Late January: Work out a project plan, and hurl in some leeway and breathing space in case things don’t go according to plan

Feb – April: Final revisions of the trilogy

May: build draft paperback editions for my cover artist so he can get the spine thickness right when he starts work in mid-May; the second half of the month is set aside for working with him on this (although it was much quicker, he is that good)

June-July: Build and order initial proof copies of the paperbacks and proof-read all three; submit any corrections so everything’s ready for release. Build kindle versions.

August: probably just take it easy in the run-up to publication because this is totally do-able, but there’s some leeway in the unlikely event things don’t go according to plan

August 23rd: release Angel’s Truth

September: release Angel’s Deceit

October: release Angel’s Knight

What could possibly go wrong? Well, there were a few wrinkles along the way, but because I was planning a staggered release of the trilogy, if I had real problems I could focus on book one, then I’d have a few weeks to work on book 2 before its release in September, and a few more till the final release in October. Well, you can probably tell from the lack of postings to the site that I’ve been a little busy, and the success of Angel’s Truth distracted me just long enough to make things interesting.

Now, the journey’s almost over: Angel’s Truth and Angel’s Deceit have both been released, so it’s time to take a fortifying breath, channel Mo Farah and sprint for the finish. It’s not a done deal – the wheels could totally fall off at any moment – but it’s definitely achievable.